Shell's "eval" doesn't behave when running a non-cygwin compiler

Andrew Markebo flognat@flognat.myip.org
Thu Mar 15 16:19:00 GMT 2001


/ Andy Helten <andy.helten@dot21rts.com> wrote:
| [...]
| 
| if { (eval echo \"$ac_link\"); (eval $ac_link); } then

Ehm.. you are doing something like 

eval echo "ls"

?? This results in 

"ls" at my place.. if I do eval ls I get the listing of the dir.. Or
have I missed something?

        /Andy

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